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The headline is actually better than the story itself..

there is just something about picturing the story of the day..

now you dont have to picture it - go to youtube

its priceless

Cat survives 19 days with jar on head

A cat has survived for 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head.

The Cain family of Bartlett, Tennessee, have fed the feral cat, which they call Wild Oats, for several years.

They saw the cat several times with the jar on its head and tried in vain to catch it. But after not seeing it for a week, they feared the worst.

They finally found the once chubby cat, too thin and weak to flee, and used some oil to get the jar off her head. They gave her water and treated her wounds and she is eating again.

The family are know thinking of changing the cat's name to Survivor.

 

Why not give that to your 3 year old niece for christmas?

This would have been a teddy bear some people I know like Eva Kamilla and Arri would have appreciate in their days...

Macabre but sweet

Are kids too young to know about the realities of grown up life? Or is it time when they realise Santa Clause doesn't really exist? "Yes - animals are killed by cars - sometimes the one your are sitting in driving to grandma"

Maybe grown ups dont want to grow up and some still believe in fictionary things, how else do you explain the success of Harry Potter, and films like Lord of the Rings and the Golden compass? Its not all kids that go to see them - And you still believe Saddam was responsable for 9/11 and that Bush won the election in 2000- so where does that leave you?

Maybe grown-up teddy bears would be a perfect gift for christmas... not for my niece but for my75 year old grandma and myself.

Sarkozy hasn't spoken publicly for almost a week. What is going on? Radio commentators I heard this morning wondered what could cause this - now especially in the time of social crisis in France - the transport strike enters its 6th day and no meeting is planned between the government and the unions until Wednesday. In the meanwhile Civil servents such as postal workers and teachers will join the mouvement on tuesday for 24hours - so lots of people the president could try to reason with and I am sure he has a very strong opinion on the matter. The Prime Minister and employment minister consol him of course for the next steps to take but I cannot but wonder how Mr. President manages to keep silent. Maybe he could teach me a lesson...

It wasn't such a good idea to make a little joke at the workplace on a slow newsday apparently... where I asked whether we did plan anything special for the "day without Sarkozy" in the media - a small organisation is calling for the media not to quote or talk about the president the 30th of November. I think the idea is funny - and I would certainly want to know if an american outlet would try to influence the american media not to talk about Bush for one day. With the French "hyper-president" it seems more appropriate however, him being everywhere all the time - I think one day I had 3 stories in a ten minute bulletin where Sarkozy had come to the rescue, Chad, angry fishermen, wrongly accused nurses.. "le Petit Nicolas" is there. So much so that even his prime minister complained about it off-camera (or what he thought was off-camera) the other day: "he is always ahead of me.. I was going to go but he beat me to it". The real question is (and probably the reason why such a joke seems to be quite a sensitive matter) - how is the president going to decide on the future of French television landscape, will the channel survive a re-arrengement of the french media treating international news?

The decision was due in the last days.. so what can one do apart joking around?

 

I've realised why it is that I dont blog more often - its not the lack of ideas (Always seem to have the greatest ones so far away from a computer and then they simply get forgotten), Or my perfectionism which often hinders me from doing so many other things- or the lack of time - which often gets intertwined with perfection since you need time to get everything right. There is never enough time.

No, it is the hugeness of it all - all the possibilities the virtual world has to offer and all this (dis)information everywhere, with myspace or Facebook (which I continue to resist - for one part because I want to experience something IRL (=in real life),the blog, the photos, msn, google or the countless news websites that dont give you anything more that you already read somewhere else. It is frightening to realise that you could actually spend your whole life on the internet. wou.. I get shivers..

So that's why I blog only sometimes, when I have time to correct the mistakes - where I can gather my thoughts - while I surf on Ratp.fr or watch something on alluc.org.. or read the latest gossip on perezhilton.com

and then I realise I should have done something a long time ago.. in IRL.

 

The french prepare to strike, yet again. This transport strike is expected to last,
however it is very unlikely that the government will give in to the strikers' demand - this being the first real test for the government of Nicolas Sarkozy (normally you say the government of the prime minister - except that here the PM seems to be completely lost next to the hyper-president). They argue these Pensions reforms were electoral promisses and that the majority of the country has approved them with the election of the president and his government. The most debated point of the reform is that everyone has to work for 40 years before being able to retire. Until now many had "special deals" like train drivers that could retire around 50 years old due to the hard aspect of their job - but these deals were negotiated just after the second world war or even in the time of king Louis fourteen. Now the trend is to make everyone work the same time- regardless from the differences the hours worked or the diffuculties linked to the tasks. Unions claim that these can not be reformed because the workers chose the jobs because of the benefits offered. And now students are joining the striking force.

So the only way this strike doesn't last for days or even weeks is for the unions and the government to decide they have something they can negociate over... or that they want to negociate, not always easy.

 

Meanwhile thousands of people will be stranded all over - and having difficulties getting to and from work. Thankfully my bike is not on a strike...yet

 

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